Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
“Resist the suppressive pressure to contract, and instead expand in defiance.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites. — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression… — Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr Copy Share Image
It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in… — J. Edgar Hoover Copy Share Image
We say our terror against America is blessed terror in order to put an end to suppression, in order for the United… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
I'm surprised John Lewis didn't invoke the suppression of voting rights in this election [2016]. I still think it's one of the… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We've changed in the sense that we flipped - and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to… — Neil McDonald Copy Share Image
“Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Every man — in the development of his own personality — has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence,… — Thomas Emerson Copy Share Image
Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
While there were many factors in the 2016 election, from false news to voter suppression and Russian hacking, the question is why… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“But laugh?" He pressed the flat of his hand against my stomach. "Here lives laugh." He ran his finger straight up to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life--to be tame or to be wanton. To be… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“There are many roles that people play and many images that they project. There is, for example, the "nice" man who is… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“The most effective weapon a parent has to control a child is the withdrawal of love or its threat. A young child… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image